Opinion
Letter: Sununu, respect, and courage of conviction
Last week’s article in the Monitor by Josh Rogers, NH Public Radio, was about our governor’s opinion on Donald Trump on the eve of the former president’s trial in New York. It was titled “Sununu says he’ll support Trump even if he’s convicted.” It...
Letter: Lawmakers should not vote to break laws they helped create
I grew up hearing, “Go Sarah!” I am one of the lucky ones. My parents love and support me. My high school teammates and school respected me and supported me; and believe it or not, for a few years, New Hampshire, the state I love, uplifted me when a...
Opinion: This Earth Day, help keep local land clean and healthy
By MIKE COHEN
Mike Cohen is the Principal Consultant for MJC HealthSolutions. Mike has served on many volunteer boards and committees in New Hampshire, contributing to efforts to improve the health and well-being of residents and protecting and preserving natural...
Opinion: America needs systematic change
By TYLER CZARKOWSKI
Tyler Czarkowski is a senior at Hopkinton High School. He is captain of the Hopkinton baseball team and lives in Hopkinton. In November, I will be voting for the first time in the general election for the president of the United States. It pains me...
Opinion: The eclipse reveals an allegory about the current political life of Congress
By JOHN BUTTRICK
John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.comI’ve been angry and fearful watching the antics of Congress, particularly within the House of Representatives. Many...
Opinion: Student power: Confronting collaborators and cowards at home and abroad
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com ‘From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself,”...
Letter: It doesn’t have to be this way
Every spring nearly all of us grow frustrated with increases in our property taxes. In some communities the seeming “culprit” is a major capital expense but most often it’s the cost of our schools that causes people to say they can’t afford the...
Letter: Israel draws U.S. into another Middle East war
The West is “outraged” at Iran’s recent drone attack, but it was provoked! Let’s remember Israel first bombed the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing at least seven. This assassination was in clear violation of international law (to...
Letter: Must be MAGA
Remember when Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?” He was talking about Chris Sununu. Jack Shields Penacook
Letter: Removing critical tools for election security
A bill before the state senate’s Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee, HB 1569, would remove voters’ access to a critical tool for validating their ability to vote when registering or re-registering to vote in New Hampshire. Currently if...
Letter: EV charger locations
The ski area executives who were whining about the lack of EV chargers in NH in the April 13 Monitor should look in the mirror. The current system of buying fuel will have to change with electrification, nobody wants to hang around a convenience store...
Letter: Trump is responsible for the attack on reproductive rights
Former President Trump is trying to alleviate his direct responsibility for the attacks on reproductive rights caused by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Mitch McConnell paved the way by flouting decades of precedent when he...
Letter: A champion for women’s rights
Women of my generation, who fought to have our rights expanded in the last decades of the twentieth century, never imagined that those rights would be ripped away by politicians and judges put in place by a minority of our country’s citizens. The...
Letter: Response to joint city/ school meeting
What a novel idea, a meeting of school and city leaders. The only thing novel is the inclusion of representatives from Merrimack Valley schools! For years the school district had a committee called the Joint-City School Committee. It met once a month....
Opinion: Adopting the right 306 Rules
By LAURA VINCENT
Laura Vincent lives in Loudon. The debate over the adoption of updated 306 rules (minimum standards for public education) rages on. After multiple hearings for public comment, Commissioner Edelblut and the State Board of Education still appear to not...
Opinion: A lesson in shapeshifting & the 306 revisions
By JANET WARD
Janet Ward lives in Hopkinton. On April 11, at the State Board of Education’s second public hearing on Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut’s revisions of the 306 Rules which govern public schools, Board Chair Drew Cline gave all those present an...
Letter: Police station in Concord
The ten years I spent on the City Council were very educational and challenging. Most things surrounding the Green Street Puzzle Palace that were true then and are true now in that there is not the slightest modicum of common sense when it comes to...
Letter: ‘This is about politics’
Is it difficult to fathom the cowardly words and actions of our current New Hampshire governor. He has once more shown us, and the rest of the world, the true nature of his character. On ABC’s This Week, which aired on 4/14, George Stephanopoulos...
Letter: Was that you, governor?
Suspicions that the man who appeared to be Governor Sununu in an interview with George Stephanopolous recently was actually Lindsay Graham in a rubber mask are ridiculous, of course. The truth is much more pedestrian: Sununu needs a job, so he’s...
Letter: Finding balance
Chloe Rattee recently wrote a story on Averill’s Martial Arts Academy. In this story is mention of how “Paul Averill was inspired to study Martial Arts after watching the 1970’s TV show Kung Fu with actor David Carradine.” A similar experience...
